"Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama."

-Mark Rothko

YouWorkForThem

Some exciting type design coming from YouWorkForThem. The forum collects a large range of styles by top notch designers and combines them with a clean, navigable site to make for quite pleasant shopping (or window shopping). While browsing, you can test out the font with your own text input and size/weight adjustments.
The images below are only a small peek at their inventory, in which you will begin to envision an incredible variety of applications. YouWorkForThem client list includes the biggest of the biggies: Apple, Victoria's Secret, Nike, Diesel, Wired Magazine, Cartoon Network, Harvard University, aaaand on and on....

Have no fear of perfection. You'll never reach it."

-Salvador Dali

Ana Montiel

TAKAHIRO KIMURA

Japanese collage artist, 

TAKAHIRO KIMURA, focuses on distorted faces, but states..

"...if you feel some complicated emotions of human beings are expressed out of my work [faces], it might be projections of what you have inside. The broken faces might be mirrors to reflect your emotions."

Simón Prades

 Simón Prades

Japan I - Ink & Watercolor

 

 Japan II - Ink & Watercolor

 

 The Mask of the Red Death

 

 Mexico

 Me, Myself & I

Artist Feature

Paolo Lim, originally from Manila, now works out of southern Australia and the beachy vibes of his two homes imbue his style with a hot-cool dichotomy that makes for some fun work. I'm so impressed by his palette and his synthesis of graphic color blocks with photorealistic illustration, not to mention whatever  technique is behind the pieces. He has done quite a few album covers and editorial work. You can pick up a pretty rad t-shirt over at his site.

This Modern Life

"The things you own end up owning you."

-Tyler Durden, Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik

I believe this concept can be a struggle for designers, as we are so enmeshed with the material world and all its manifestations. At this point in my life, I seek to shed most everything but the bare necessities, and I have to fight urges to sweep peachy little things into my keep (yard sale finds below were a gift, albeit somewhat of an impulse).  The quick sketch was inspired by conversations I've had with my roommate about the expectations we place on ourselves regarding success and status.... how we tie our happiness to a rubric we didn't even write. I challenge you (and myself) to identify something in your life.. a habit, a bill, a goal.. that you've acquired vicariously..... and throw it out the window.


This post is a departure from most of the posts at 'You are Here', but identifying what drives you is important... and so is knowing that you don't have to pick it out of a catalogue.

Found Objects

Great deals on a yard sale down the road..

Animal Rummy

I envy this dude's gig. So much. Animal Rummy is 'Rob Jones' out of Austin, TX who has landed consistent clientele such as Jack White and The Black Keys. His identifiable style, strong in integration of type  and spontaneity of imagery, delivers consistent dark delight. I posted some of my favorite gig posters, but there are so many more over at his site.

Bernhard Lang

Lang, a photographer from Germany, captures whimsical aerial snapshots with incredible color, contrast, and atmosphere. You can access his work at Behance. I've also shared a couple pieces from his 'Winter Aerials' collection below.

Eudoxia

"But if you pause and examine it carefully, you become convinced that each place in the carpet corresponds to a place in the city and all the things contained in the city are contained in the design, arranged according to their true relationship, which escapes your eye distracted by the bustle, the throngs the shoving. All of Eudoxia's confusion, the mules' braying, the lampblack stains, the fish smell is what is evident in the incomplete perspective you grasp; but the carpet proves that there is a point form which the city shows its true proportions, the geometrical scheme implicit in its every, tiniest detail."

-Italo Calvino